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Kamili M. Jackson, Ph.D. earned her
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
Mechanical Engineering in 1997 and
1998, respectively, from the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County
(UMBC). While an undergraduate at
UMBC, she was both an LSAMP
Scholar and a McNair Scholar, and she had extensive
undergraduate research experiences. She completed her Ph.D.
program in Mechanical Engineering at The Johns Hopkins
University in 2002. She held a Post-Doc position for two
years in the Center of Materials Engineering at the University
of Capetown in South Africa. Currently, she is employed as
an engineer at NASA Goddard.
Dahlia J. Jackson-O’Brien, Ph.D.
earned her B.S. summa cum laude in
Biology from the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in
1999, and she was honored to receive
LSAMP Scholarship support throughout her undergraduate
career. She continued at UMES for graduate school, and she
completed her MS. programs in both Food and Agricultural
Science and Physical Therapy in 2002. She completed her
Ph.D. program in Food Science and Technology at UMES in
2005. Her Ph.D. research focused on the influence of breed
and nutrition on growth, parasite resistance, carcass traits, and
meat quality of crossbred Katahdin lambs. It included
synchronizing estrus in ewes and managing females during
pregnancy, lambing, and lactation. Currently, she is an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Agriculture and
Natural Resources and State Small Ruminant Specialist for
Cooperative Extension at Delaware State University.
Rudy D. Jasmin earned his B.S. in
Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Maryland, College Park in
2000. He began college in the LSAMP
Summer Bridge Program. He was a
research assistant at New Jersey Institute of
Technology’s College of Engineering while
completing his M.S. in Transportation in 2001. He worked as
a field engineer on gas turbines for GE Power Systems. In
2006, he earned his M.B.A. from Rutgers concentrating in
Supply Chain Management and became a senior procurement
analyst at Sikorsky Aircraft. Currently, he is a project
manager with Siemens Energy, Inc. in the gas turbine division.
He also is active in his community and serves as a mentor for
the Big Brothers Big Sisters program
Dave Jenkins earned his B.S. in Chemistry
from the University of Texas at Tyler in
2010. He received the 2010-12 Bridge to
the Doctorate Fellowship at the University
of Maryland, College Park (UMD).
Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in
Chemistry at UMD. After completing his
Ph.D., he wants to work in the field of synthetic organic
chemistry focusing on compounds with promising bioactivity.
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Charay D. Jennings, M.D., Ph.D. earned
her B.S. magna cum laude in Biological
Sciences from the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County in 1999, and she
graduated with Departmental Honors. She
has conducted research at the Institute of
Environmental and Biological Sciences at Lancaster
University in England, studying the effect of free radicals on
skin cancer. She completed her Ph.D. program in
Immunology in 2007 and her M.D. program in 2008 at the
Stanford University School of Medicine. Her doctoral
dissertation is entitled A Novel Role for Calcineurin in the
Regulation of Innate Immunity and Inflammatory Responses.
Her specialties are immunological research and biotechniques,
biology, and medical teaching. She has completed both her
Anatomic Pathology Residency and her Surgical Pathology
Fellowship at the Stanford University Medical Center.
Currently, she is a Dermatopathology Fellow at the Stanford
University Medical Center.
Kimberly Jennings earned her B.S. in
Biology from the University of
Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) in
2008. While an undergraduate at
UMES, she gained research experience
during a summer internship with the
University of Maryland Biotechnology
Institute Center of Marine
Biotechnology. She conducted research
on how small microbes called
dinoflagellates cause disease in the blue crab. She was
awarded the Graduate Meyerhoff Fellowship which supports
students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. Currently,
she is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Microbiology and
Immunology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore where
her rotation advisor is Marcela F. Pasetti, Ph.D.
Keisha John, Ph.D. earned her B.S.
magna cum laude in Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology from the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County in
2003. Not only did she complete her
Ph.D. program at the Watson School of
Biological Sciences at Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratories in four years, she
also was the first African-American to
earn a degree at the institution, and she
is currently employed there.
Delayne Y. Johnson, Ph.D. earned
her B.S. in Mathematics from the
University of Maryland, Baltimore
County in 1997. She completed her
Ph.D. in Mathematics Education at
the University of Delaware in 2009.
Her dissertation is entitled Equity and
Social Justice in School Mathematics.
Currently, she is an assistant professor of mathematics
education at Clemson University in South Carolina.